Chaos in Thailand as former MP shoots leader of council where horror school shooting unfolded

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The alleged attack came just days after a school shooting in the same region in which, authorities said, a gunman killed at least eight people.

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Chaos has unfolded in Thailand after a former MP stormed the council offices for the area where Friday's school shooting took place - and shot the council leader.

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Chalong Riewraeng, the ex-MP for Nonthaburi, is reported to have entered the local provincial hall and shot the President of the Nonthaburi Provincial Administrative Organisation.Police have now confirmed the official has been rushed to hospital.Reports in local media say both he and his driver have been left seriously injured.The suspect, named only as a former lawmaker, has been detained, police added.Both this morning's attack and the school shooting took place around seven miles apart in Nonthaburi province, in the outskirts of Thai capital Bangkok.On Friday, a teenage student killed six people then himself at a school after allegedly shooting dead his grandparents.It marked the country's worst mass killing in nearly four years.

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